At this time of year, with fresh local produce available, …

At this time of year, with fresh local produce available, my favorite easy, healthy, and delicious recipe is cherry tomatoes and spiralized zucchini lightly sautéed in olive oil with a dollop or two of pesto stirred in at the last minute.

Cheese Cracker Chicken FingersThe all-time favorite dinner at our house is chicken (usually leftover from a roast) in cream sauce over rice. It’s also a good way to use up whatever veggies are around, too. So good, but never the same twice!

Louisiana Oysters en Brochette (PLUS GIVEAWAY!)Louisiana Seafood has some nice recipes at their site. One in particular that looks really good to me is the Jumbo Lump Crab Cakes. They had me as soon as I saw the description “more crab and less cake!”

Malcolm Bedell is co-author of the critically acclaimed “Eating in Maine: At Home, On the Town, and On the Road,” as well as the taco-centric blog “Eat More Tacos,” and the junk food-centric “Spork & Barrel.” His contributions include Serious Eats, Down East, L.A. Weekly, The Guardian, and The Huffington Post and his food truck, “‘Wich, Please,” was named “Hottest Restaurant in Maine” for 2015 by Eater. Finally, he finds it very silly to be trying to write this in the third person.